Pan-Seared Pink Salmon Steak
A pan-seared pink salmon steak makes a great main course for lunch or dinner. It's a really simple dish — frying up steaks couldn't be easier. You can use all sorts of marinades, or just salt the fish and add a little onion; it's up to your taste. Pink salmon steaks made this way come out wonderfully appetizing, tasty, and fragrant — you barely notice the garlic, and the fish stays very juicy.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Pink salmon steaks come out really special with this recipe. Gather your ingredients: fish steaks, garlic, lemon juice, salt, and olive oil.
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Step 2:
Scrape the scales off the salmon steaks and rinse them well.
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Step 3:
Pat the rinsed salmon steaks completely dry with paper towels.
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Step 4:
In a small bowl, combine the crushed garlic, salt, and olive oil (any vegetable oil works). Let the fish sit in this marinade for a while, spooning it over the fish and turning the pieces now and then.
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Step 5:
Set the salmon steak in a preheated dry skillet — the oil from the garlic marinade is enough. Sear the steaks on one side, uncovered.
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Step 6:
Now flip the steaks, cover, and cook the fish through. Serve right away — salmon is at its best juicy and appetizing straight from the pan; as it cools, the flesh firms up.
- Pink salmon is one of the leaner members of the salmon family, so frying it up while keeping it juicy isn't always easy. A lot of the dish's success comes down to the quality of the fish — in most areas pink salmon is sold frozen. Anyone who has tried freshly caught pink salmon (or other red fish) will never settle for the frozen kind; the difference in flavor is just too big. Still, we'll make the most of what we have. It helps if you can buy pink salmon that has only been frozen once — that is, fish that hasn't been thawed and refrozen. These days pink salmon steaks are sold in pretty good quality, as you can see in the photo: the flesh is bright and firm, so you can be confident that any dish made from fish like this will turn out great.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Lemon juice - 16 kcal/100g
- Olive oil - 913 kcal/100g
- Pink salmon steak - 116 kcal/100g
